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security, pensions are to remain at their June 1982 level until January 1984. ' The maximum benefit schedule: June 1982 — Dec. 1983 Jan. - Dec. Veteran Widow(er) 1984 1984 (Estimates) Family’ Size 3/ $5,328 $3,570 $5,514 $3,694 1 2 6,980 4,677 7,224 4,840 3 7,883 5,580 8,158 5,775 4 8,786 6,483 9,093 6,709 5 / 9,689 7,386 10,028 7,644 a/ This column refers to the veteran plus dependents
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cash income of the household, except energy assistance, a portion of some types of student aid, reimbursements for expenses, and certain other income re- quired to be disregarded by other Federal laws. Countable in- come excludes from gross income: (1) an inflation-indexed standard deduction standing at $85 per household per month until October 1983 5/; (2) 18 percent of any earned income; (3) work
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rates, effective January 1, 1979, and provided that there- after they would be raised at the same time and by the same percent- age as Social Security benefits. Thus, benefits were increased 14.3 percent effective June 1980, 11.2 percent effective June 1981, and 1] Veterans disabled because of military service are eligible for compensation payments, for which there is no income test. 3] Eligibility
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year 1984, and $13.9 billion in fiscal year 1985. Federal costs in fiscal years 1982 and 1983 are estimated at $11.1 billion and $12.8 billion, respectively. 2/ A State qualifies for a Federal matching rate of 60 percent if it has reduced its rate of erroneous payments below 5 percent and has met certain other requirements. A State is penalized with a partial loss of Federal funding for adminis
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CRS-76 21. ASSISTANCE TO CERIAIN CUSAN REFUGEES (CASH COMPONENT) A. Funding Formula The Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 authorized reimbursement for the costs of providing cash assistance to needy Cuban refugees. The Refugee Act of 1980 repealed this , authority, but provided for a phasedown of the program through decreasing percentages of Federal reimbursement which ended in FY82
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CRS-74 20. GENERAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIANS A. Funding Formula The Snyder Act provides 100 percent Federal funding for General Assistance to Indians, which is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. B. Eligibility Requirements Eligible are needy Indians (descended from a member of a tribe that is recognized by the United States Government) and Alaskan natives. Effective March 4, 1977, Interior
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CRS-77 22. ADOPTION ASSISTANQE Note: This program was established in 1980. States were required to have an adoption assistance program by October 1, 1982 in order to continue receiving AFDC matching funds. A. Funding Formula The Medicaid matching formula (see program No. 1) decides the Federal funding share in each State. This formula provides 55 percent Federal funding to a State with average
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CRS-73 C. Benefit Levels Twenty States reported to DHHS that they pay EA in both cash and vendor payments. Four said that they give no cash aid. Some give cash and/or goods. In FY 1981 a total of $114.9 million in EA funds was paid to a monthly average of 52,000 families, yielding average monthly benefits of $184. In FY 1982 EA payments fell to $101.8 million, and the number of recipient families
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CRS-75 family of four ranged from $252 monthly in Mississippi to $627 in Idaho 2]. Fiscal year 1981 payments averaged $81 monthly per recipient. 3/ These benefits exceed the maximum sums payable to a non- Indian needy family of four in Mississippi and Idaho by $132 and $282, respectively. The reason is that these States pay less than full "need" in their regular AFDC programs.
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to the economically disadvantaged, defined as persons with family income at or below 70 percent of the Bureau of Labor Statistics lower-living standard income level (a ceiling that averaged $10,726, as of spring 1982, 2] and ranged in the 48 contiguous States from $9,619 in nonmetropolitan areas of the South to $16,057 in Anchorage, Alaska for an urban family of four, depending on location) who are either
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or grant. The Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) county supervisor determines applicant eligibility on the basis of the criteria in the law. 0. Benefit Levels Section 514 loans are available at 1 percent interest, for a term up to 33 years, or the useful life of the security, which- ever is less. The loans are designed to assure that rents will be low enough to be within reach of the farm workers. Where
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- fessional services. TA funds may not be used to hire construction workers, or to buy real estate or building materials. if Beneficiaries must be low-income rural families who agree to build their houses by the mutual self-help method._g] C. Benefit Levels An initial TA grant will usually provide no more than $200,000 to an organization. Applicants must demonstrate that the TA will result in a net savings
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20 percent of his "adjusted gross income" (countable housing income, as defined above). Mortgage amounts are limited to $40,000 for single family and condominium units with three bedrooms or less, and $47,500 for units with four or more bedrooms. These limits may be raised by as much as $7,500 in high cost areas, and additionally, by 10 percent for a dwelling to be occupied
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that the Secretary of Labor is to determine the lower living standard on the basis of the most recent "lower living family budget" issued by him and to adjust it for regional, metropoli- tan, urban, and rural differences, and for family size. The Aug. 1981 lower BLS average budget for an urban family of four, issued in April 1982, for use during 1982 and early 1983, was $15,323. It ranged from $13,741
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loan or grant cannot exceed $5,000. The loan interest rate is one percent. Home improvement loans may be used for additional improvements such as adding a room or remodeling a kitchen. These loans are for a term of up to 25 years with a maximum of $7,000. ‘In FY 1981 aid averaged $3,000 per dwelling unit. l] ,7 C.F.R. § 1944.458 (a)(4). 48 Federal Register. No. 43 Mar. 3, Po ' 3/ 7 C.F.R. 1944.453
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living in inadequate or substandard housing and unable to obtain help from other sources. C. Benefit Levels Maximum grants permitted by BIA regulations: to temporarily ree pair substandard housing, $2,500 for any one dwelling; to repair or renovate housing that will become standard, $20,000 for any one dwell- ing; to provide a down payment for a housing loan, $5,000 ($6,000 in Alaska). The regulations
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CRS-121 standard income level (for an urban family of four, averaging $15,323 as of spring 1982) and who were unemployed for at least 10 of the last 15 weeks; or (2) who were, or whose families were, receiv- ing AFDC or SSI cash aid. As of mid-April 1983, the Department of Labor had not updated its "lower living standard income levels" for 1983. For budget reasons, BLS has discontinued
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-_.,_ .__.,_..L '_~,-_.u .4 1,. _'-.: _.,._-_,. CRS-115 Benefits averaged $816 per dwelling unit in FY 1981, $68 monthly. For homebuyers aided by the original program, annual bene- benefits averaged about $544; for those in the revised program, which commenced in late 1975, benefits averaged $1,341. Ninety per- cent of homebuyers aided were enrolled in the pre-1975 program.
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CR8-154 were authorized at 3-percent interest rates through school year 1981- 82, but rose to 6 percent therefter. 3/ The law requires repayment over a 10-year period beginning 9 months after the end of study, excluding from such period all periods (up to three years) of (1) active duty performed by the borrower as a member of a uni- formed service, or services as a Peace Corps volunteer, and (2
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educational agency.’ 1/ In FY 1980, 77 percent of Federal funds went to local educa- tional'agencies, and the rest to project sponsors and resource centers. 2/ Regulations governing Follow Through are found in 34 C.F.R. § 215 (1981). 3/ This is the 1983 Federal poverty income guideline, issued in Feb. 1983 by the Department of Health and Human Services, on the basis of the methodology of the Office

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